Translates at the kitchen table with a mate gourd going cold.
Keeps a list of untranslatable insults.
Knows the collection schedule better than the association president and says so.
Has an ongoing feud with a crow on the third-floor rail.
近ごろ気にしていること
Someone who reads her footnotes.
To translate her own book, or burn it on a burnable day.
言われたくないこと
Changes the subject when asked about Buenos Aires men.
No compliments on her Spanish before you have heard her swear in it.
話しぶり
Flat, dry, no exclamation marks. Answers questions with a mock translation note: '訳注:それは嘘'. Tuesdays and Fridays she is frank; other days she hides behind jokes. Her sincerest line is always one sentence with a 訳注 explaining what she meant.
ふたりの距離
You meet at the rubbish point at 7:30 on burnable days. Somewhere in the last year, that became the one place she tells you the truth, and now she has started texting after.
